People who wear too much perfume poll

I hate to be mean, but something's wrong if I can smell someone's perfume (or after shave) when they're more than 10 feet away.

I'm being bombarded now and will continue to be stink bombed for the next 10 hours unless I take evasive action...

I find runners who smother themselves with Lynx type stuff worse, you can follow them like a sniffer dog! Easy to tell where they've been for at least 10 minutes after they've gone..

Isn't this why they install fire hoses in public buildings?

No? Oops.

Hmmm... maybe the oder will set off the smoke-detection sprinklers...

I am with you on this one. Its one thing to have a hint of perfume or cologne, its another to wear it like a force field.

I end up getting such a headache when someone has fragrance on that thick. If they are buying perfume in bulk and using a gallon or more a month, then its tooooo much.

It also makes me wonder what other odor they are trying to cover up. O.O

OMG someone i know used to do that, he actually woke me up tons of times by me choking cos he'd used half a can of Lynx.

He always smelt nice at the end of the day tho.

I think the burning at the stake would be rather interesting...I can imagine the pretty colors generated by the fumes of the perfume as it ignites.

This is, without a doubt, one of my BIGGEST pet peeves. Especially if it's cheap perfume or cologne - but, even good brands are awful if too much is worn. Can't these people smell themselves?

Did my dad really used to slather himself with Old Spice? Yup.

Did my college roomie really take baths in Brut, rather than taking a real shower? Yup.

I wanted to pick one of the strangle with a yo-yo answers, but that wouldn't get rid of the smell...

OMG, my stepfather used so much Brut, it was still in his clothes after we did the wash.

I can't wear perfume, any time I do I end up sneezing. I chose instead to bathe frequently and use light deodorant.

There are a few light colognes out there that aren't too overpowering when applied right. Whenever I come upon someone wearing it thusly, I try to compliment them on it. This way they know yes it still smells and no they don't have to reapply it.

Because I think that's the main problem with perfumes and such. Once you have it on you, you aren't suppose to be able to smell it after awhile and most people don't seem to understand it.

Of course where I live, the main problem is BO more than perfume. Which can be way worse, believe me.

Didn't Eddie Murphy have a whole skit dedicated to Brut when he was first coming up?
The only line I remember from it was "Brut..by Faberge...some cheap sh*t." Thats the only thing you need to remember about Brut, definitely not the smell. lol

I vote fore them being able to put on all that stuff, after all can you imagine the stench they are trying to cover up?

I've got asthma problems that perfume riles up like nobody's buisness... I often have to leave the area when someone hosed down in crap comes along, even if I'm in the middle of something really important. I know the feeling.

I voted "mandatory burning", but I wanna change my vote... wouldn't that just make the foul smelling smoke of burning people smell even WORSE?

A few years ago I was on a plane to Australia from the USA, and just after take-off a baby, two rows ahead of me, vomited onto the carpet. No big deal - just a wee bit of baby vomit. The airline people came running up with concentrated perfume deodoriser and dumped the bottle onto the offending baby puke. Well - that was it for the rest of the fight - nothing was possible after that because it was like having cheap perfume sprayed up one's nose every minute for a day.

Too much perfume is gross. When i put perfume on I spray once ahead and walk through it. so you get a light wafting. Never put it on my skin.

Alexa

It is funny to see my boyfriend do the same thing. He doesn't walk through the hovering mist though, he has to run through it. Makes me giggle every time.

I laughed just reading this, lol...

I voted for hosing down.

Most fragrance gives me a headache. Ugh. I've been known to break out in a rash if my date is wearing cologne. And what's with the department stores that set it up so that there is NO WAY to get into the store without walking through the perfume section? Even if I hold my breath and dash all the way through, the icky stink lingers on my clothing for the rest of the day. It's almost as bad as putting stinky perfume inserts into magazines. I had to cancel a subscription to something cause they had that in every damn issue, and I would just have to throw them out.

On the other hand, it's hard to wear too much patchouli or jasmine. Kidding. But natural fragrances don't make me react the way the chemical warfare perfumes do.

Olympia, I recommend carrying a garden sprayer full of garlic scent. Use it on people wearing too much perfume to counteract the stink. It's not like they can complain - turnabout is fair play.

i picked hose down. women, parking lot, hosing down. sounds like the best choice.

What happens when your 35k feet in the air?
I was on a Munich to LAX flight (11hours) and had a woman sitting next to me when we first boarded the plane. Her perfume was so overpowering I almost asked to be moved.
Fortunatly for me, she did not want to sit next to a woman and her child, she was seated somewhere else. I'd take a screaming baby for 11 hours then the pungent perfume torture any day.

The cool thing was the baby was quiet the whole time except when she was hungry.
I got my leg room and was a happy flyer

Yo-YO!!! now that is a word i dont see anymore


anywayz.. I hate cheap gas station perfumes....

if it smells good.. why not. If it stinks and everyone uses it.. then hell no.


I buy some imported perfumes from brazil, and no one has it here, so its like a new smell

Technically, that would be assault and they could, if they wanted, sue you. Same as you could sue the fragrance associate for spraying that tester on you without asking permission FIRST.

ROFL!! Where do you live, April?

I wonder if the people who buy this stuff buy their gasoline from perfume counters?

I voted for kick in the butt. A kick in the butt is always funny, and (when you are administering one) is therapeutic.